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Job Title: National Learning & Development Lead

Hours: Full time

Job Status: Fixed term to 31 March 2026

Location: Home based - with expectation of regular travel within area, and nationally where required.

Salary: £52,575.15 per annum

Closing Date: Monday 28 July 2025

Anticipated Interview Date: Thursday 7 August 2025

Skills for Care helps create a well-led, skilled and valued adult social care workforce.

Our practical support helps leaders and managers recruit, develop and lead their staff, retaining them from entry level right through to senior leadership and management roles.

Find out more by taking a look at our website www.skillsforcare.org.uk.

Skills for Care has an exciting opportunity for a National Learning & Development Lead to join our Sector Support, Development and Delivery Directorate.

As a National Learning & Development Lead your focus will be to drive performance and quality within the care sector through the development and delivery of high-quality training to the social care workforce.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an L&D professional with a background in health and social care to make a real impact by developing and delivering training programmes that promote professional growth and compliance within the care sector.

We are looking for a person who can facilitate synchronous virtual classroom courses, face to face teaching sessions and seminars that inspire and empower care staff to meet regulatory compliance and industry standards, focusing on quality and best practices.

Experienced in the planning and design of engaging learning courses and content, you will have a track record of delivering training using diverse methods including in-person workshops, virtual sessions, and blended learning approaches.

An excellent communicator, with the motivation and ambition to succeed, you’ll have outstanding interpersonal skills and be able to build effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders to deliver and proactively develop services.

This is a national role, so applicants are encouraged to apply from all regions. Whilst much of the delivery will be remote, you will need to be comfortable travelling where necessary to deliver training or to attend meetings as required.

If you are interested in this role please visit the website for the full job description.

At Skills for Care we are passionate about our workforce becoming more representative of the society we support, this includes all equality characteristics such as age, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief. This lived experience from a diverse group of people helps us in all the work that we do and ultimately supports the social care sector to provide the best quality care. We recognize that sometimes an individual’s impairment can mean that some adjustments to our recruitment and selection process would be welcomed. Please contact our HR team to discuss any adjustments that you may need.

A DBS check is not required for these roles. Candidates will be asked to disclose any unspent criminal convictions as part of the recruitment process however this will not form part of the initial application stage.

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  Mid-Senior level

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  Full-time

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  Human Resources

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